● Transcriber’s Notes:
○ Missing or obscured punctuation was silently corrected.
○ Inconsistent spelling and hyphenation were made consistent only
when a predominant form was found in this book.
○ Text that was in italics is enclosed by underscores (_italics_).
○ Text that was in bold face is enclosed by equals signs (=bold=).
○ Footnotes have been moved to follow the letters in which they are
referenced.